# Number 9 Films

Number 9 Films is a British independent film production company co-founded in 2002 by producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, after a long collaboration at both Palace Pictures and Scala Productions.
Between them the principles' movies have garnered 57 BAFTA nominations and wins, and 23 Academy Award® nominations and wins.
Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen were jointly honoured with the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award in 2019.
In 2019, Number 9 Films entered into a multi-year agreement with film studio and cinema chain Shochiku for distribution of its theatrical films in Japan. The studio would also contribute funding for film development.
In 2024, Beta Film took a stake in Number 9 TV, a new small screen subsidiary of the production company.

## Projects

Their latest feature LIVING, scripted by Kazou Ishiguro and starring Bill Nighy - a reworking of Kurosawa’s classic IKIRU - received numerous accolades including 3 BAFTA Award nominations and 2 Academy Award® nominations. The company also served as co-executive producers on ANOTHER END, starring Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve, which was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival. Upcoming projects include Fleur Fortuné's THE ASSESSMENT, starring Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel; award-winning theatre director Marianne Elliott's feature debut THE SALT PATH, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs; and Kei Ishikawa's A PALE VIEW OF HILLS, adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's novel of the same name.
Karlsen and Woolley have produced some of the most celebrated independent films in the US and Europe including: Todd Haynes’s CAROL, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (nominated for 6 Academy Awards®, 6 Golden Globe Awards, and 9 BAFTA Awards); Mark Herman’s LITTLE VOICE, starring Jane Horrocks and Michael Caine (winner of a Golden Globe Award, nominated for 1 Academy Award®, 6 Golden Globe Awards, and 6 BAFTA Awards); Neil Jordan’s THE CRYING GAME, starring Stephen Rea and Forest Whitaker (winner of an Academy Award®, a BAFTA Award, and nominated for 6 Academy Awards®); MADE IN DAGENHAM, starring Sally Hawkins and Rosamund Pike (nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards); Phyllis Nagy’s MRS. HARRIS, starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley (nominated for 12 Emmy® Awards, 3 Golden Globe Awards, and a PGA Award); Wash Westmoreland’s COLETTE, starring Keira Knightley and Dominic West (nominated for 4 BIFAs and an Independent Spirit Award); and Paolo Sorrentino’s YOUTH, starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel (nominated for 1 Academy Award® and winner of 3 European Film Awards). Karlsen’s credits also include LADIES IN LAVENDER, SIXTY SIX and NEON BIBLE. Woolley’s producing credits also include COMPANY OF WOLVES, MONA LISA, SCANDAL, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, BACKBEAT, MICHAEL COLLINS, THE BUTCHER BOY, STONED (which Woolley also directed) and INTERMISSION.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Worldwide box office | Notes |
| 2004 | Return to Sender | | |
| 2005 | Mrs. Harris | | Nominated for twelve Emmy Awards |
| 2005 | Stoned | $174,758 | |
| 2005 | Breakfast on Pluto | $3.9 million | Nominated for 11 Irish Film & Television Academy awards. |
| 2006 | Sixty Six | $1.9 million | |
| 2007 | And When Did You Last See Your Father? | $2.7 million | Nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards |
| 2008 | Sounds Like Teen Spirit | | |
| 2008 | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | $19.2 million | Production budget: $28 million. |
| 2009 | Perrier's Bounty | $167,938 | |
| 2010 | Made in Dagenham | $15.6 million | Production budget: £5 million. Nominated for four British Academy Film Awards Nominated for four British Independent Film Awards |
| 2012 | Midnight's Children | $1.6 million | |
| 2012 | Byzantium | $92,544 | Production budget: €8 million. |
| 2012 | Great Expectations | $920,099 | |
| 2014 | Hyena | $89,526 | |
| 2015 | Carol | $42.7 million | Production budget: $11.8 million. Nominated for nine British Academy Film Awards Nominated for six Academy Awards Nominated for five Golden Globe Awards |
| 2015 | Youth | $24 million | Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards Nominated for one Academy Award |
| 2016 | The Limehouse Golem | $2.3 million | Released in 2017. |
| 2016 | Their Finest | $13.8 million | |
| 2017 | On Chesil Beach | $3.4 million | |
| 2018 | Colette | $16 million | Nominated for four British Independent Film Awards Nominated for two Satellite Awards |
| 2021 | Mothering Sunday | $2.1 million | |
| 2022 | Living | $12.1 million | Nominated for nine British Independent Film Awards Nominated for one Golden Globe Award Nominated for three British Academy Film Awards Nominated for four Satellite Awards Nominated for two Academy Awards |